[Evolution-users] Question about using the backup option in Evolution

[Milan Crha]

On Sun, 2025-09-28 at 14:48 +0200, Tim McConnell via evolution-users
wrote:
> when I back up Evolution via the
> backup tool, does it save my rules and view images from settings?

	Hi,
it saves all your Evolution configuration options, including the
accounts configured directly in the Evolution. It does not save the
credentials, thus you'd need to re-login on the other machine.

I'm not sure what you mean with the "view images". If you mean the view
settings, then that is saved too.

You can try whether the restored data satisfies your needs for example
by creating a new temporary user in the system and restoring from a
backup file in that user account. Note it's a very simple backup tool,
it just saves the configuration options and some of the directories
Evolution uses [1]. For any extended backup you'd need a special tool
for that, which focuses on the backups, like rsync (I'm not using it
myself, I only heard some users use it).

	Bye,
	Milan

[1] https://gnome.pages.gitlab.gnome.org/evolution/help/data-storage.html